Woman solicitor ‘sacked for starting a relationship’

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A woman solicitor claims she was sacked from her job with a leading law firm
after ignoring her boss’s instructions not to start a relationship, an
employment tribunal has been told.

Kate Baker, 33, claims the managing partner of Follett Stock, which has
offices across the West Country, wanted her to stay single and “not have
babies”. In a submission read out to the tribunal in Exeter she claimed she
was reminded of this in a text message from the wife of her boss, Chris
Lingard.

In her statement read in public by the tribunal judge Christopher Carstairs,
Miss Baker